Posted by Jeffrey Li on May 9, 2009
At some point in our career, I’m sure many of us ran into a situation where we find ourselves explaining what we do. Whether it’s about the baiscs of web design or developing for standards, it can be frustrating trying to explain everything to someone who’s not technically savy. Well, over the weekend, a close [...]
Posted by Jeffrey Li on Oct 17, 2008
Last weekend a few SPG members went on an excursion to the Pennsylvania Renaissance Faire in Mount Hope PA. The weather was nice and I believe it marked the last official nice day of PA. Nevertheless, we had a blast since it was pirate invasion week, Rrrr.
The experience was amazing as always, you can never [...]
Posted by Jeffrey Li on Oct 2, 2008
(iambic pentameter? Calling all English majors, help me out here please!)
Yesterday, I encountered an interesting issue on one of our clients’ site that had a conflict with a third party service. What it came down to was an anomaly on the search results page. Those of us with a good understanding of Yahoo! stores should [...]
Posted by Jeffrey Li on Sep 24, 2008
Whether you admit it or not, at some point in your life you’ve thought about how awesome an Easy Bake Oven was. The concept of a little lightbulb making delicious treats is ingenius. Well, as an adult, who said that has to stop? Introducting the PC EZ-bake Oven! (http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/ezbake.shtml) Fits into any 5 1/4 bay [...]
Posted by Jeffrey Li on Sep 24, 2008
Day 2 of the infamous Woot Off is under way and boy do they have a lot of junk? (http://www.woot.com) Each new item is a new test of my will power to stopping myself from making impulse purchases. Regardless the amount of junk out there, I’m determined to buy my first random bag of crap, [...]
Posted by Jeffrey Li on Sep 22, 2008
As a MCSE and active member on the IT Advisory Counsil, I get sneak peaks into things that other developers usually find out weeks, if not months after. So you’re lucky I’m delivering these news hot off the press.
Some of you may know, Microsoft follows their schedules religiously (ie. Update Tuesdays ) And this month [...]
Posted by Jeffrey Li on Sep 18, 2008
For my next magic trick*, I will turn this background into funk! ::Dazzle::
The magic wand tool is one of the most easily overlooked tool in any web developers’ arsenal. Now I’m not trying to be a designer but this serves as a quick insight on what I know about the tool, and also a plea [...]
Posted by Jeffrey Li on Sep 16, 2008
Going through some of my stuff I came across an old picture, anyone know what his name is and why he’s so important?
Hint: Metropolitan Museum of Art - Egyptian Arts Gallery
Give up? This little guy is called William. He’s filled with history as he is living proof of ancient Egyptians’ interest in the natural [...]
Posted by Jeffrey Li on Sep 15, 2008
Is it me or is it unrealistically difficult to find a Wii Fit? I don’t go out of my way looking for it but when I’m at a store like Best Buy or Wal-mart, I make it a point to checkout the video game aisle hoping to find that Wii Fit. Each time I was [...]
Posted by Jeffrey Li on Sep 15, 2008
Consider this a challenge!
Anyone in Solid Cactus with knowledge of any photo editing software like Photoshop, Fireworks, Gimp, ah hell, MS Paint are strongly encouraged to tap into the right side of their brain and get creative. Shirt.woot.com has been doing this for weeks where they have opened up their site to let users submit [...]